jonathan, start us out. i think you have a question for the senator on the fiscal cliff issue. >> hello, senator. one of the -- >> hello. >> -- questions that i'm hearing from investors is a timing issue. there's so much to work through between now and year end. how much are we going to be able to address now and how much are we going to have to push off into next year and what might the process be to resolve some of those from kind of a timing perspective? >> well, it certainly would be very constructive if we could get some of these things solved now rather than deal next year. for instance, some of my colleagues in the senate think we should go over the cliff and then maybe go back and lower some tax rates back down to where they were prior to the cliff. i for one think that's a terrible idea. i think we ought to extend the current tax rates in their entirety and work through some pro-growth tax reform. we've tried to suggest this. at any time get too much progress on the other side. i'm just hoping now t